Baby travel chamber



Feb. 21, 1950 s. POURCH ET AL BABY TRAVEL CHAMBER Filed Oct. 16, 1945 Patented Feb. 21, 1950 UNITED STATES EAIEN'I OFFICE BABY TRAVEL CHAMBER Sidney. Pourch'and Helen Pourch, NewYork, N. Y. Application October 16, 1945,: Serial.No. 622,526.

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This invention relates to improvements int devices for use in defecation and urinationbysmall children; and it relates more specifically to improvements in baby travel chambers as disclosed in our co-pending patent application Serial No. 588,754.

The objects of our improvement are as follows:

First, the provision of adevice of the character described which consists ofonly five main parts that canbe pressed or cast of plastic material or of any other similar substance;

Second, the provision of a device of the character described which is of less width than the device described in our co-pending patent application Serial No. 538,754, so that itbefore or after it has been usedcan be carried more conveniently in any suitable bag or envelope, and which has a tightly closing top cover so that the entire closed device can be carried to a lavatory for emptying it and for rinsing it after use; this latter feature makes it unnecessary to detach the chamber vessel from the device and to carry said vessel through a train or through any other crowdedplace to a lavatory;

Third, the provision of a device of the character described which has at its front portion an upwardly protruding shell-shaped member which serves as a shield for facilitating the urinating into a chamber vessel that is attached to the device and for preventing the wetting of the seat portion of the device or of the floor on which the device stands.

Fourth, the provision of a device of the character described which allows a horizontal adjustment of the open top cover, so that this cover can be used as a back rest which causes the child to sit in the proper position and which can be properly adjusted for this purpose according-to the size of the child.

Further objects of the instant invention reside in any novel feature of construction or operation or novel combination of parts present in the embodiment of the invention described and shown in the accompanying drawing within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a preferred embodiment of our invention as it appears when it is closed;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the device as it appears after the removal of the top closure; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The main. portion l of the device is supported by legs 3 which consist preferably of a pair of supporting plates that are provided with reinforcement. ribs 2. g

The legs 3 are pivoted to a' rectangular framelike seat 4 at 2'; so that they can carry out a limited angular, movement relative to seat'd. The seat It is substantially U shape'd' 'in transverse and longitudinal cross-section, and its rear flange 6 is provided with a recess 5 (Figs. 2 and 4) for receiving the top rim of a chamber vessel l2. The longitudinal side flanges of the seat 4 are provided with a plurality of bores l for receiving pins 9 which are secured to and protrude inwardly over a pair of rods 8'. A pair of levers 10, which are secured to the rear portion of a top cover H) are hinged to the rods 8 at i I. Ihe vessel [2 is shiftably attached to the lower side of the seat 4 by means of clamps or angular members hi or in any other suitable manner. The seat 4 has an opening similar to that of a toilet seat, as may be seen in Fig. 3, and a shell-shaped member [3, which is preferably made as a unit with the front portion of seat 4, protrudes upwardly and downwardly over the seat 4. The member l3 extends between theupper thigh portions of a child sitting on the device and serves-particularly in the case of boys-as a shield for deviating the urine and leading it into the vessel l2, thus preventing a wetting of the floor and of the seat 4.

When the cover I 5 is open and in substantially upright position, it serves as a back rest, and it can be horizontally adjusted according to the size of the child by inserting the pins 9 into any suitable pair of the bores i, so that the child will sit close to the shell-shaped member 13.

The cover 55 is provided with a bulged front portion adapted to encompass the upwardly protruding portion of the part l3 when the cover i5 is closed.

While normally it will not be necessary to remove the vessel l2 from the seat 4 vfor flushing, emptying and cleaning the vessel I2, if a removal of the vessel 12 is desired this can be carried out by shifting it forwardly towards the shell shaped member I3 until its rim is out of engagement with the rear clamps M, then raising its front portion and disengaging it from the front clamp Since certain changes maybe made in the above article and diiferent embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which as a matter of language might be said to fall therebetween.

Having thus fully described our said invention,

what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A baby travel chamber comprising a rectangular frame-like perforated toilet seat whose edge portions protrude beyond the lower side of its main portion and which has opposite rows of bores in its longitudinal edge portions, angular members, having their vertical sections secured to opposite lower portions of said seat while their horizontal sections extend into the space surrounded by the edge portions of the seat beneath the latter, a chamber vessel having an outwardly extending flanged rim which is in slidable engagement with the horizontal sections of said angular'members, beneath the seat, a shell-shaped member made as a unit with said seat having an open lower section which registers with the first portion of the perforation of the seat and which extends through and beyond the lower side of the latter while its main section protrudes beyond REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of'this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name 1 Date 1,181,162 Pierce May 2, 1916 1,358,933 Collins Nov. 16, 1920 1,563,236 Smith NOV. 24;, 1925 2,153,866 Hess Apr. 11, 1939 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 454,837 Great Britain Oct. 8, 1936 

